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The appointment comes as Kim Wilson, SND founder and president, announced she will leave the company at the end of April, along with co-founder Elisa DeFoe.

Siding with Twitter, a federal appeals court refused to revive prominent conservative Rogan O’Handley’s claims that his First Amendment rights were violated when his account was banned due to tweets regarding the 2020 presidential election.

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday reaffirmed to lawmakers that TikTok poses a national security and privacy concern, potentially collecting and controlling the data of millions of Americans and swaying public opinion. Wray, who was testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on worldwide threats, agreed with lawmakers that TikTok, which is owned by Chinese-based company ByteDance, has the ability to collect information on American citizens if it wanted to.

Utah lawmakers last week passed a package of bills that would prohibit social-media companies from allowing minors under 18 to have accounts, without parental permission, and would ban the companies from serving any ads to minors. In addition to those restrictions, the Social Media Regulation Act (SB 152) would require social media companies to verify all current and prospective users’ ages, and would force social media companies to allow parents to access all content and interactions of their underage children’s accounts.

Twitter is urging a federal judge to again throw out a class-action privacy lawsuit over allegations that the company incorporated users’ email addresses and phone numbers, which were provided for security purposes, into an ad-targeting platform.

A divided House committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that could pave the way for President Biden to ban the popular TikTok app. “TikTok is a modern day trojan horse,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who sponsored the Deterring America’s Foreign Adversaries Act (HR 1553), said at a hearing Tuesday afternoon. He characterized the app, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, as a “national security threat” that allows the Chinese government to manipulate and monitor U.S. users.

WWE surpassed 20 million followers on its flagship TikTok account during its most recent quarter, the first sports league to do so, and it’s launching three international TikTok accounts after the WWE Español TikTok handle reached nearly 2 million followers in its first year, according to the company. WWE’s presence online is already broad and it does not appear to be slowing down.

In a tweet, Wojcicki said she sent an email to YouTube employees announcing her plans to step back from her role as head of YouTube to start a new chapter focused on her family, health and personal projects she is passionate about. She will be succeeded by Neal Mohan, who is chief product officer at YouTube, a division of Alphabet.

As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and misleading information have taken a hit.

The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinformation.

The maker of Snapchat also swung to a loss in the latest quarter and projected that its sales would decline.

Keeping its head down has not paid off for the company, which now faces regulatory pressure on many fronts. So it is starting to speak out.

The company said in a blog post Wednesday it is adding “new guardrails” to ensure there are no “repeat offenders” who violate its rules, even if they are political candidates or world leaders. “The public should be able to hear what their politicians are saying — the good, the bad and the ugly — so that they can make informed choices at the ballot box,” wrote Nick Clegg, Facebook parent Meta’s vice president of global affairs.

The U.S. Supreme Court wants the Biden administration to weigh in on the Texas and Florida social media laws before justices decide whether to take up cases involving Big Tech industry lawsuits against the two states.

On Friday, the Supreme Court is expected to discuss whether to hear two cases that challenge laws in Texas and Florida barring online platforms from taking down certain political content. Next month, the court is scheduled to hear a case that questions Section 230, a 1996 statute that protects the platforms from liability for the content posted by their users. These cases could significantly affect the power and responsibilities of social media platforms.

Former President Donald Trump, who recently announced plans to run again in 2024, reportedly is urging Meta Platforms to restore his account. “We believe that the ban on President Trump’s account on Facebook has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse,” a representative for Trump said in a letter to Meta, according to NBC News, which first reported on Trump’s request for his account to be reinstated.

On the Dot with David Schechter, a new reporting brand from the CBS Local News Innovation Lab, aims to shake up the O&O’s local newscasts with longer-form, cinematically shot deep dives on climate change.

Elon Musk’s social media service said it would begin to permit cause-based advertising to “facilitate public conversation around important topics.”

Elon Musk can reverse his early fumble at Twitter’s helm by hiring an old-fashioned publisher, who in turn should hire an experienced editor, to lead. The platform badly needs their application of well-honed journalistic values to climb out of the mire.

The GOP commissioner says the foreign-investment panel needs to wrap up its review, and without cutting a deal.

The company’s internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.

Elon Musk suspended reporters from Twitter and later reinstated them, but with a catch: They must nix their tweets related to the account @ElonJet, which has tracked Musk’s private plane using public data.

A former CNBC journalist hits viral home runs with his globetrotting, selfie stick-wielding reportage. He shares how he’s built a following of two million across social platforms by hitting some key beats with every post. Above, journalist Uptin Saiidi brings his audience on a search for answers in the world of tech, travel and luxury.

Elon Musk asked Twitter users Sunday if he should step down as head of the social media site. More than 17 million votes were cast and delivered a clear verdict: 57.5% said he should quit, in a Twitter “poll” that closed after 12 hours on Monday. Musk had said he would abide by the results of the vote. After voting ended, there was no immediate response from Musk on Twitter.

Yesterday, Elon Musk launched a new 12-hour poll asking if he should step down as head of Twitter. “I will abide by the results of this poll.” The action came after acknowledging he made a mistake Sunday in launching new speech restrictions that banned mentions of rival social media websites. The move to block competitors was Musk’s latest attempt to crack down on certain speech after he shut down a Twitter account last week that was tracking the flights of his private jet.

A bill with at least one Democrat onboard has been introduced in the Senate and House that would ban social-media platform TikTok in the United States. The creatively named Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship and Influence, and Algorithmic Learning by the Chinese Communist Party Act (ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act) was introduced by a pair of Republicans, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (Wis.), and Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (Ill.).

Media brands rank as nearly a fifth of America’s most indispensable ones, including three new ones — TikTok, Instagram and Spotify — being added to this year’s top 100 “most connected brands,” according to an annual study released this morning by Opinium.

Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.

The ads, submitted by researchers, were rejected by YouTube and TikTok.